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I haven't looked at your code (composing a letter right now), but have you tried using a global reset to kill the margins and padding, then adding margins and padding to those elements that require them by any chance?

Of course, you will have to reset the margins and padding on the elements of your Web page afterword, since these are very powerful style rules. Also note that if you do this, you do not need to explicitly declare margins and padding on some elements to be zero, since they already are.